The Ethanol Papers - Paperturn manuscript - Flipbook - Page 620
results depended upon “some input data that are old and unrepresentative of
current [ethanol-production] processes, or so poorly documented that their
quality cannot be evaluated.” The complete editorial from The New Atlantis can
be found by CLICKING HERE
In October 2009, David Blume traveled to Cornell University to conduct a workshop on permaculture. While there he paid a call on David Pimentel and was
able to record the conversation. In the more than 20-minute long conversation
Pimentel agrees and acknowledges that many of the conclusions that were
drawn in the studies he conducted are now incorrect, or could be rendered incorrect given advances in farming and ethanol production – advances that already had been proven by the time of this conversation in 2009, which was just
a year or so after Bryce wrote GUSHER OF LIES. These were also advances
that had largely taken place since the publication of the Pimentel-Patzek study
just 4 years prior. Bryce’s book and his later work, such as the article that appeared in The Daily Beast towards the end of 2012, make no allowance for the
possibility of improvements that could affect the conclusions of the PimentelPatzek study, and Bryce seems to have not permitted any bothersome details
about improvements to have interfered with the conclusions that his book set in
stone. You can watch the entire video by clicking on the window below. The
video is not quite as good as the quality in the Josh Tickell video clip, but the
message comes across loud and clear.
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